What are the specific ways that captioned video technology can be used in the classroom with students who are deaf?
The implementation of captioned video for literacy instruction varies depending upon the skills teachers wish their students to develop. In order to help build vocabulary, for example, teachers can show a captioned video, stopping the segments periodically and asking students to find targeted vocabulary words in the electronic text. The teacher also can ask students to relate words to the corresponding visual images. After viewing the segment, students who are given scripts of the captions may be asked to locate the target words. In this way, students can quickly see the relationship between “what they say” and “what they read.” In all cases, the teacher may work the captioning activities into the larger reading lesson. For teaching writing, the teacher can ask students to view a clip and then use personal captioning technology to write their own English captions. Students can also translate short video stories into written English captions, and apply those captions to the story.
